City of hope / produced by Sarah Green, Maggie Renzi ; written, directed, and edited by John Sayles.

An honest politician and the son of a corrupt contractor find their lives intersecting in surprising ways with the powerful and powerless of a decaying East Coast city in this portrait of the corruption, bigotry and violence of urban America.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:	City of hope (Motion picture)
Main Author:	Daring, Mason (Composer)
Corporate Author:	Sociedad Industrial Azucarera La Esperanza
Other Authors:	Sayles, John, 1950- (Screenwriter, Director) Green, Sarah, 1957- (Producer) Renzi, Maggie (Producer) Spano, Vincent, 1962- (Actor) Lo Bianco, Tony (Actor) Morton, Joe, 1947- (Actor)
Language:	English
Language and/or Writing System:	Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
Published:	Burbank, Calif. : SVS/Triumph : RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, 1992.
Subjects:	Action and adventure films. Feature films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Fiction films. Independent films. Feature films > United States.
Genre:	Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Action and adventure films. Fiction films. Independent films. Feature films. Feature films
Physical Description:	1 videodisc (approximately 130 min.) : DVD video sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:	Video DVD

Description
Summary:	An honest politician and the son of a corrupt contractor find their lives intersecting in surprising ways with the powerful and powerless of a decaying East Coast city in this portrait of the corruption, bigotry and violence of urban America.
Note:	Originally produced as motion picture in 1991; copyright held by Esperanza, Inc.
Call Number:	PN1995.9.A3 C579 1992 VideoDVD
Audience:	MPAA rating: R.
Credits:	Casting, Barbara Hewson Shapiro ; music, Mason Daring ; production design, Dan Bishop and Dianna Freas ; director of photography, Robert Richardson ; executive producers, John Sloss and Harold Welb ; producers, Sarah Green and Maggie Renzi ; writer/director/editor, John Sayles.
System Details:	Converted from VHS to DVD-R using a Magnavox ZV427MG9 DVD Recorder VCR.
Cast:	Vincent Spano, Tony Lo Bianco, Joe Morton, Todd Graff, David Strathairn, Anthony John Denison, Barbara Williams, Angela Bassett, Gloria Foster, Lawrence Tierney.